From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Lisp's future Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 10:13:38 +0300 Message-ID: <83y4srjaot.fsf@gnu.org> References: <54193A70.9020901@member.fsf.org> <87wq8pwjen.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <837g0ptnlj.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3yxwdr6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87tx3tmi3t.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <834mvttgsf.fsf@gnu.org> <87lhp5m99w.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87h9ztm5oa.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87d2ahm3nw.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <871tqneyvl.fsf@netris.org> <87d2a54t1m.fsf@yeeloong.lan> <83lhotme1e.fsf@gnu.org> <871tql17uw.fsf@yeeloong.lan> <838uktm9gw.fsf@gnu.org> <87h9zgarvp.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412752432 19358 80.91.229.3 (8 Oct 2014 07:13:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 07:13:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, mhw@netris.org, dmantipov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org, handa@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, stephen@xemacs.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 08 09:13:44 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XblRQ-0003Sm-96 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2014 09:13:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34599 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XblRP-0000df-Pq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2014 03:13:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37548) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XblRI-0000Xt-7X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2014 03:13:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XblRD-0003Nj-Qz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2014 03:13:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout24.012.net.il ([80.179.55.180]:48717) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XblR8-0003Mu-RH; Wed, 08 Oct 2014 03:13:27 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout24.012.net.il by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0ND400E0062L2300@mtaout24.012.net.il>; Wed, 08 Oct 2014 10:07:19 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0ND4006X86G6UL80@mtaout24.012.net.il>; Wed, 08 Oct 2014 10:07:19 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.180 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:175107 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 20:47:04 -0400 > From: Richard Stallman > CC: eliz@gnu.org, mhw@netris.org, dmantipov@yandex.ru, > emacs-devel@gnu.org, handa@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, > stephen@xemacs.org > > UTF-8 is defined as not containing "overlong" sequences, so Emacs > decodes them into two raw-byte indicating characters, one indicating > 0xC0, one indicating 0xA2. When encoding, it reassembles them into > 0xC0 0xA2. > > In that case, it might be reasonable to ask the user whether to accept > a UTF-8 file decoding that contains any raw-byte characters. > > What do people think of this? We do ask, but only at buffer save time. Asking questions when visiting a file is perceived as a nuisance, because our heuristics that detect these cases are imperfect and tend to have high enough false positive rate that annoys people.